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Tidal Disruption Events in the Ultraviolet and Optical

Presentation #306.02 in the session Tidal Disruption Events Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum.

Published onMay 03, 2024
Tidal Disruption Events in the Ultraviolet and Optical

We constructed the largest complete, flux limited sample of 33 optical-ultraviolet tidal disruption events using the Zwicky Transient Facility. With this sample, we update the optical-ultraviolet TDE rate, luminosity function, and inferred the shape of the local black hole mass function. We summarize additional novel results seen in this systematically selected sample, including a partial TDE with two flares separated by three years, a few events where the redder emission peaks later than the bluer emission, as well as some events with long-lasting late-time plateaus. We discuss the implications of these results in the context of stream collision, circularization and accretion disk evolution in TDEs.

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